9 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: What Do I Do When I Want to Do Everything?: A Revolutionary Programme for Doing Everything That You Love: Books: Barbara Sher - The idea of self-help books makes me cringe, but this does sound intriguing... (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)
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9 month ago
philgyford : ScienceDirect - Journal of Vocational Behavior : The role of chance events in career decision making - "Chance events were reported as influencing the career decisions of 69.1% of the sample." (via Haddock)
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9 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success: Books: Marci Alboher - Also sounds cringeworthy (like most self-help books) but possibly ideal. (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)
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13 month ago
43folders : Testing Video Games Can't Possibly Be Harder Than an Afternoon With Xbox, Right? - Not playing games so much as just doing the same task hundreds of times while measuring it. Tedium, defined.
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18 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted - Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted: "The best strategy for career planning is this: make your best guess, try it out and don't be surprised if you don't like it. But for heaven's sake don't mention this in your interviews."
philgyford : PsyBlog: Why Career Planning Is Time Wasted - The group who chose their sandwiches for the week in advance "are significantly less happy with their choices than the group who chose their sandwiches on the day." (via Haddock)
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19 month ago
deusx : Rands In Repose: Ninety Days - "Your job interview isn't over until you've changed to become part of a new team."
43folders : Rands In Repose: Ninety Days - "Your job interview isn't over until you've changed to become part of a new team."
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19 month ago
43folders : Word Spy - glass cliff - "A senior job or important project, particularly one given to a woman, with a high risk of failure"
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43folders : Take control of your career in time - The Boston Globe - "The ability to quickly process and synthesize information and turn it into actions is one of the most emergent skills of the professional world today."
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23 month ago
Linkorama : The Future of White Boy clubs - Ah, actually doing something
43folders : The Future of White Boy clubs - Would love to see some stats on non-"white boy" hiring and retention; conferences reflect who _works_ in a field, right? Don't just shoot the canary.
Paul Hammond : The Future of White Boy clubs at FactoryCity - It won’t be easy, but dammit, nothing worthwhile ever is.
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31 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How to Do What You Love - How to Do What You Love: "By the time they reach an age to think about what they'd like to do, most kids have been thoroughly misled about the idea of loving one's work."
kayodeok : How to Do What You Love - The test of whether people love what they do is whether they'd do it even if they weren't paid for it - even if they had to work at another job to make a living. How many corporate lawyers would do their current work if they had to do it for free, in thei
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Math Will Rock Your World - Tom Leighton, an entrepreneur and applied math professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says: "All of my students have standing offers at Yahoo! and Google ." Top mathematicians are becoming a new global elite
gleuschk : Math Will Rock Your World - from Kord
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31 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Good and Bad Procrastination - Good and Bad Procrastination: guilty as charged. :-(
kayodeok : Good and Bad Procrastination - "What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?"
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32 month ago
jkottke : Charlize Theron, Halle Berry, and the Post-Oscar Career Suicide Syndrome - Charlize Theron, Halle Berry, and the Post-Oscar Career Suicide Syndrome.
kayodeok : Oscar winners turn success into mediocrity - Indeed, it's hard to imagine Katharine Hepburn or Bette Davis following up Oscar-winning performances with the kind of roles some of today's top actresses take
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33 month ago
merlinmann : Pixar Jobs - Current Openings - Howard from Pixar writes to say they're in the market for some hotshot Mac developers who do Objective-C and Cocoa. (Tell 'em you saw it on 43F).
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35 month ago
kayodeok : SoYouWanna resign from your job? - Examples of resignation letters
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be Democrats - Do liberals and conservatives have mutually exclusive career aspirations for their children?
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38 month ago
jkottke : Text of Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address
Jason Shellen : Steve Jobs commencement address to the Stanford Class of 2005 - Three great stories about connecting the dots in life. #
Wayne Burkett : You've got to find what you love - Steve Jobs's Stanford commencement speech. #
Matthew M. Boedicker : Steve Jobs' speech at Stanford commencement
kayodeok : 'You've got to find what you love': Steve Jobs' June 2005 Stanford commencement speech - "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice."
erikbenson : Steve Jobs knows the secret to living - Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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41 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : changing jobs from programmer to bike messenger
jkottke : A great account of a computer programmer's job switch to being a bicycle courier
jimray : A Coder in Courierland - A coder turned bike messenger
philgyford : A Coder in Courierland || kuro5hin.org - Report from a programmer who quit to become a bicycle courier.
Andy Baio : A Coder in Courierland - story of a computer programmer who dropped out of tech to be a bike courier [via]
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41 month ago
deusx : ongoing · It?s Not Dangerous - "Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career"
kayodeok : Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career - Tim Bray explains why Blogging is not as dangerous as we are led to believe
Rod Begbie : It's Not Dangerous - Tim Bray provides "Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career". I agree 100%, and have the job to prove it! [via] #
Andy Baio : Tim Bray on why blogging is good for your career - counteracting the trend of fired for blogging stories [via] [via]
François Nonnenmacher : It?s Not Dangerous (to blog) - Tim Bray explains why blogging is good for your career and may be why journos are spreading FUD about fired bloggers (hint: they are in FUD themselves)
Paul Hammond : ongoing · It?s Not Dangerous - Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career
ricmac : Tim Bray on how blogging is good for your career - That's the assumption I've been working on for ages now... I'm still waiting to get noticed by employers in NZ though! ;-) hint hint... btw patience is not one of my virtues :-)
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41 month ago
kayodeok : How to Interview Potential Employers - How does one impact whether they work for a great or lousy manager? Is it just a luck of the draw? While you will never know for sure, you can better the odds that your new manager will be a good one.
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